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Learning Geospatial Analysis with Python - Third Edition

By : Joel Lawhead
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Learning Geospatial Analysis with Python - Third Edition

By: Joel Lawhead

Overview of this book

Geospatial analysis is used in almost every domain you can think of, including defense, farming, and even medicine. With this systematic guide, you'll get started with geographic information system (GIS) and remote sensing analysis using the latest features in Python. This book will take you through GIS techniques, geodatabases, geospatial raster data, and much more using the latest built-in tools and libraries in Python 3.7. You'll learn everything you need to know about using software packages or APIs and generic algorithms that can be used for different situations. Furthermore, you'll learn how to apply simple Python GIS geospatial processes to a variety of problems, and work with remote sensing data. By the end of the book, you'll be able to build a generic corporate system, which can be implemented in any organization to manage customer support requests and field support personnel.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
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Section 1: The History and the Present of the Industry
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Section 2: Geospatial Analysis Concepts
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Section 3: Practical Geospatial Processing Techniques

What are overviews?

Overview data is most commonly found in raster formats. Overviews are resampled and lower-resolution versions of raster datasets that provide thumbnail views or simply faster-loading image views at different map scales. They are also known as pyramids, and the process of creating them is known as pyramiding an image. These overviews are usually preprocessed and stored with the full resolution data either embedded with the file or in a separate file.

The compromise of this convenience is that the additional images add to the overall file size of the dataset; however, they speed up image viewers. Vector data also has a concept of overviews, usually to give a dataset geographic context in an overview map. However, because vector data is scalable, reduced size overviews are usually created on the fly by software using a generalization operation, as mentioned in...